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Mrs Gale is here better & stronger than
I have seen her for two years - She sends
love - & appears very sad for us - poor
old woman - All your people long
to see you - Oh Mother loved Mother
may God help us all in pity - I can
write no more - Praying and hoping to
live to see you one and all ever
more in health - William joins his warm
love with ours - Oh I pray to God to
keep us all in life - Oh to see you again
Oh may Our Heavenly Father watch over
us one and all - Do not grieve more than
you can help - Do not wear mourning
for her who is now an angel rejoicing with
her God - Oh her poor Mothers [sic] heart is nigh
broken - May God have pity on poor us -
You shall know all about her if we
live to meet - with it I never can -
Goodby [sic] my beloved Mother -

Your poor child
[signed] H